Slightly off topic: The BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE online {Newspaper} 1841 to 1902 is online with a fully searchable index and scanned images of the actual pages http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ Members of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society http://www.nygbs.org can gain access to Proquests everyword searchable archive of the NY Times from inception {1851} to 1998 www.paperofrecord.com has more than 6 million newspapers form US, UK, Cananda, Mexico, Frances, Ireland, Spain and Australia The New York State Library has three million pages of NY State History in newspapers on its website: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/library Have not used these links in a while. Hoepfully, they have not changed. Judy